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crowded out so as not to be found in the latest edition, the only one to be bound up.

The verses are wanted as the motto on a bust of the Duke of Teck.

G. GREENHILL.

1 Staple Inn, W.C.I.

A poem with the "above title was some years since much in vogue, and printed in ornamental form to serve as a Christmas card, &c. Can it be stated who was the author, and what incident furnished the motif? In 1842 Albert Smith's drama, ' Blanche Heriot,' was produced at the Surrey Theatre, and shortly either before or after included as a tale called ' Blanche Heriot, a Legend of Old Chertsey Church,' in his 'Pictures of Life.' I have not seen a print of the play, but the prose tale hinges on the heroine saving the life of her lover, who had been condemned to die at next curfew from Chertsey Abbey Bell Tower, by means thus described :
 * CURFEW SHALL, NOT RING TO-NIGHT.'

" Heedless of the dark mass of metal that was beginning to swing backwards and forwards .... she crouched down beneath it, and clung to its iron tongue with the grasp of a drowning creature."

The event was of course favourable, and the intended victim of an episode in the Wars of the Roses escaped his doom.

There may be legends elsewhere of similar occurrences : and it would be in- teresting to know whence the poet of com- paratively recent years drew his, or her, inspiration. W. B. H.

[The poem ' Curfew must not ring To-night ' is by Rose Hardwick Thorpe, an American poet, an edition of whose Poetical Works was brought out in 1912.]

AGE OF MATRICULATION AT OXFORD : EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I have lately com- pared in some half-a-dozen eighteenth- century instances the ages given by certain persons on the date of their matriculating at Oxford (taken from Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses, 1715-1886 ') with their dates of birth according to a parish register. In three of these cases the age appears to be understated by an amount varying from one to three years ; in the others the age given is correct. It would be interesting to know whether the discrepancies are accidental or whether there was some motive for understating one's age when entering Oxford during that period.

D. W. DODWELL.

Oxford.

ECCLESIASTICAL DRESS IN RUSSIAN CHURCH. In Mrs. Garnett's translation of a short story, 'The Letter,' by Tchehoy a certain Father Anastasy, a village priest, appears upon the scene attired " in a smart cassock of a light lilac colour." In another tale in the same volume called ' The Steppe ' there is a Father Christopher wearing " a grey canvas cassock."

Do the Russian popes,, or village priests, wear cassocks of any colour and any material, that chance or taste supplies ? E. R.

CULLIDGE-ENDED. Houses or stacks are- or have been so described in Lincolnshire when the ends of the roofs or thatching are sloped up to the ridge, not carried up as- gable ends. Such roofs are called "hipped roofs."

Can the term Cullidge be explained ? reserve a conjecture for the present. What I want is evidence. J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

EDWARDS, SAMUEL BEDFORD, of Arsley* Bedfordshire, was High Sheriff of that county in 1825. The dates of his birth and death are desired. G. F. R. B.

HENRY TOPLADY was admitted to West- minster School in April, 1749, aged 9. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q. ' help me t6 identify him ? G. F. R. B.

GEORGE DYER. Are there any surviving members of his family ?

Can any light be thrown on the present location of his MS. autobiography, volume- of poems in French and literary remains ? EDMUND BLUNDEN.

JOHN BOGLE, the miniature painter wlx> worked in Edinburgh and London aboit the end of the eighteenth century is xnei- tioned in a book of memoirs, probabV relating to life at Edinburgh about that period. I should be glad of the title of the* book. B. S. L.

NOVELS OF MOTORING. I am compiling a list of modern fiction which has to do with automobiles : novels which might be called \ novels of motoring. Can some of your readers assist in supplementing my limited vision by giving me the titles and authors of any they may happen to remember, aside of course from the C. N. and A. M. William- son series, which, I already have as a starter

E. COLBY.

Minneapolis, U.S.A.